Ayus music today sounds more "dated" than her entire discography

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by hayasaki

Honestly, i do feel the same as u guys. I don't know. There are gems on her latest albums here and there but majority of the songs are somewhat lackluster. Perhaps the last song that may have blown me away (really) was Song 4 U. I'm not saying that we might be tired of her but perhaps we are tired of her songs arrangements? Almost all songs got the same patterns; build ups; and rock guitar solos during refrain parts specially on her midtempo songs. i dunno. Its just... its hard to put it into words. Anyway, i'm happy Ayu's trying things lately specially new arrangers.

She's always had these sorts of build up-compositions though...

Thinking that the work is "dated" is different from feeling that it is "lackluster" imo.